"The space transmission is stopped, all the ministries are in good condition, the plane connection driver is shutting down, the No. 3 main power engine is preparing to leave the silent operation state, victory will always be with you and me."
The main engine of the Admiral Empire completed the last broadcast of the pilotage phase, and then there was a noise that we had never heard on the bridge.
"Sure enough, it was interfered by the information barrier," I tapped on the control crystal in front of the commander's seat, "How is the communication tower?"
The main communication tower is a large-scale building complex built in the middle of the left arm of the Admiral Empire. As a non-combat flagship specialized in command and field command functions, the communication building of the Admiral Empire is its most important place, but just now A noise resounding through the bridge indicated that the communication center might have been disabled—under normal circumstances, it should be the communication from the rear fort that sounded at this time.
"Glory to you, Your Majesty," the image of the commander stationed in the communication tower area emerged on the holographic projection in front of the seat, a middle-aged man with a thin face, "The communication links between the fleets are all normal, and the communication with the Shadow Fortress is all silent , the hardware of the mainframe of the tower group is not damaged, but the world coordinates stored in all the memory carriers and the data of the imperial space-time transmission network have been emptied by unknown forces. At the same time, we have also lost the communication agreement with the Templar Legion. I am afraid it will take a long time repair."
"Well, wait patiently, I will reply to the contact with Shadow Fortress as soon as possible."
After hanging up the communication tower, I stood up from my seat.
It seems that this is what happened to Lilina when she entered this world. First, the communication with the headquarters was blocked by that weird information barrier, and then all the space coordinates and upper-level protocols stored in the spaceship were also in the process of crossing the plane. With the communication device equipped by the Templar Legion, it is simply impossible to rebuild the communication network under such circumstances.
"Sakura, how are you feeling?"
I turned my head and asked with concern the purple-haired girl who was still slumped on the chair next to me.
Although it has been strengthened into an elite unit like the Crystal Virgin, Matou Sakura's body is still relatively fragile (compared to those Apostles of the Spirit), and she usually doesn't often follow us around. Girls are not used to it.
"It seems that it was a wise decision not to let Senior Emiya follow, oh..." Matou Sakura frowned grimly, "'Ultra-long-distance fuzzy coordinate transmission' is indeed more uncomfortable than walking through the gate of the world, I'm afraid you have to get used to it This is a long time away.”
I smiled awkwardly. Since we have no way of knowing the situation in this world, and it is impossible to accurately locate the space teleportation, the shipboard host can only randomly choose an empty space to dock when teleporting in from another plane. , this shock... is indeed a bit serious.
Since Sakura was busy spitting out sour water, I didn't care about transforming into a wireless router so that we could restore communication. Taking advantage of this gap, I asked the military units to release the probes, while waving to Qianqian and my sister, and took out the Bring out three small cloth bags...
Hehehe, Lin Banxian, Lin Banxian, relying on his ability to prophesy, he can play tricks like Zhuge Liang, right? He also said that we have to wait three days after we finish the transmission before opening it. He said that he was talking about it, isn't that the case? You've got everything right.
"Ajun, do you want to open them now, and let Lin Xue's statement of 'three days later' be self-defeating?"
My elder sister knew what I was thinking when she came over and looked at me, and said slowly.
I don't mind either, and nodded carelessly. I would like to add here that I always thought there must be something wrong with Liu Bei's plan. Anyway, if you replaced me, I would take it apart when Zhuge Liang turned his face—everyone is curious. .
So I insist that when Zhuge Liang handed the kit to Liu Bei, he already knew that he would take it apart and peek at it.
"Could Lin Xue already know that you will peek in advance?"
Qianqian, who usually seldom gets enlightened, actually had a rare enlightenment this time, but regarding her guess, I just shook my head inscrutablely.
"The girl must know that I know that she already knows that I want to peek, and I will definitely not take advantage of this trick based on common sense, so it is beyond her expectation to take it apart now."
"But what if Lin Xue knows that you know that she knows that you know that she knows that you want to peek?"
Suddenly, a questioning sound from a small thing suddenly sounded above his head.
My face froze: "But maybe she knows that I know that she knows that I know that she knows that I know that she knows..."
The little thing continued to work tirelessly: "It's also possible that she knows that you know that she knows that you know that she knows... It hurts so much, I bit my tongue again"
I have lost the desire to complain about this little girl who will bite her tongue if she can’t explain clearly, but what she said seems to make sense, in case Lin Xue really knows I know she knows I know she knows... Would you like I can still cycle out more than 30 lines if I don't think I can make up the number of words.
But having said that, what kind of trouble do I have with a prophet in this regard? Is this kind of fight worth a dime? I feel like I'm twitching like vowing to beat Dragon God's Jingle in an arm wrestling match.
At the moment, I don't care what happens, and in the atmosphere of superficial curiosity, my elder sister's playfulness, and Jingdong peeking with my head on my stomach, I solemnly opened the cloth bag with the No.3 crookedly marked on it.
Why does it feel so like dying at the hands of fate
There was a small piece of paper inside, Qianqian couldn't wait to pull it out, and read aloud: "Wood, you really peeked ahead of time, and Qianqian pressed your finger on a line of words"
Everyone: "..."
This is such a ferocious prophecy accuracy, I said, Prophet Lin, you don’t have to sleep through the night again to keep yourself full, right? If you have the time to go and shut down China Welfare Lottery, wouldn’t it be better than nothing
Qianqian scratched her hair, then continued to read the words pressed by her finger just now in embarrassment: "Now please open the second tip~~"
I sighed, and then opened it—the cloth bag marked No.1, cut, can I listen to that crazy girl
In the end, there was still a small note in the first cloth bag, which was still snatched by Qianqian, with a large line on it: "I said it, I should open the second one~~~"
There is also a silly smiling face drawn on the back, so the level is only a little bit better than that of my elder sister.
I sighed again, opened the second one, and cooperated as long as I cooperated. I want to see how boring things that girl can do.
In the end, I was shocked, and she really had something more boring: there was still a note in the small bag numbered 2, with a line on it: "Hey, Mu Mu, haven't you thrown away the kit you opened for the first time? Actually, I put the words It's written on it..."
I wanted to cry without tears and raised my head: "Damn, don't bring such a joker... This is the same as Baidu..."
Completely speechless, I picked up the original kit, and turned it over, but the words on the bag suddenly changed, and I almost had no time to adjust my mentality: "Let all imperial warships and imperial soldiers enter phase invisibility, and look for the nearest The human and celestial bodies hide themselves, and you temporarily change to the battleships of the New Eden Federation. I don’t know the reason, but it should be clear soon.”
"What's the matter? Ah Jun?" Seeing my face suddenly change from painful to serious, my elder sister immediately grabbed the "kit" curiously, and frowned after seeing the line on it.
"She asked us to hide the imperial fleet." I casually threw aside the other two cloth bags that were purely used by Lin Xue to make trouble, "The girl may have received some metaphors—shipboard hosts, reorganizing imperial units, search Are there any suitable isolated unmanned objects nearby."
"The host understands that the hyperspace probe returned information, and a high-brightness red giant star was found 1.53 light-years ahead of the static route. The red giant star is hidden in a cloud of strong radiation. There is no living planet nearby. Do you want to stop?"
"Hiding in the red giant star?" The corners of my mouth turned up, "Sounds interesting—Sakura, how is your body recovering? I'm afraid we need to vibrate a little bit."
A certain Crystal Virgin immediately waved her hand bitterly: "I think I have to vomit..."
Let Matou Sakura rest for a while, and I gave the order for the fleet to set sail. Now all the imperial spaceships have entered phase invisibility according to Lin Xue's prompt, and only a group of battle cruisers from the Federal Government Army are left exposed within the observable range. Ship and Protos aircraft carrier, this made the Pandora sisters who planned to lead a group of tigers and wolves to sweep the starry sky quite frustrated.
The red giant star scanned by the host computer is a billion times the size of the sun, a bright and aging star in decline. Some data shows that the predecessor of this old star may be a fat "sun". Expanded to this extent after millions of years of internal nuclear combustion, it is a lone cosmic solitary traveler, and no associated celestial bodies have been found around it. Of course, there may have been, but those celestial bodies are now The tyrant swallowed it, and what greeted us in this desolate sky area was only a large piece of dim hot nebula that was constantly spreading, and a red giant star that was gradually cooling down.
Of course, after the fleet approached the red giant star, what appeared in front of our eyes was no longer a celestial body, but the boundless red sea, which was equivalent to a billion times the size of the sun, which means that you are hundreds of millions of kilometers away It is also impossible to see any arc on its edge, and the imperial fleet jumped directly to a position less than two million kilometers away from this planet, which made us find that we had entered a crimson world in the blink of an eye.
Even though the imaging system of the spacecraft has lowered the brightness of the exterior scene, the bridge is still glowing red with the sea of fire reflected in the holographic projection.
The surface of the red giant star is a thin cloud of hydrogen fuel gas, which is as magnificent as a layer of flames floating on the boiling soup. Therefore, Sakura Matou and her heroic guards lay on the railing of the bridge and watched the real scene ahead The holographic projections sighed one after another like a choir.
They didn't see the truly thrilling and magnificent side of the red giant star at all. In fact, no matter what angle the naked eye is full of limitations, it is impossible to see all the magnificence of this cosmic giant, but just a red world is enough to make people laugh. They were amazed.
Here I suddenly thought of the little secret I knew when I was chatting with Pandora by accident. The girl's helium flash actually has something to do with the formation principle of the red giant star.
The balance of the star is maintained by its huge gravitational force and the violent impact of the internal nuclear reaction. When a star enters its old age and its fuel is exhausted, this balance will be broken. Due to the lack of fuel, the nuclear reaction in the center of the star will produce The impact of the star will quickly weaken, and the star will begin to collapse under the action of gravity. As the collapse progresses, the hydrogen element that originally did not participate in the combustion on the surface of the star will also undergo nuclear fusion due to high pressure and high temperature. This energy release on the surface will make The collapse process is further intensified and gradually becomes crazy. Some stars with a suitable mass will evolve into black holes, and some stars will go to the other extreme. Due to the heavy elements settling under the action of gravity, stars usually have a huge mass at this stage. Helium cores, these deposited nuclear fuels do not participate in the burning when the stars are in their prime, but when the stars are about to die, they start to fuse at a high temperature of 100 million degrees, which is different from the slow burning of stars in billions of years. The process is extremely fast, like lightning, the entire star core is ignited, causing the star to explode and expand in the process of collapse, and finally form a red giant star, and that kind of ultra-high-speed helium fusion is called a helium flare, or a helium flash for short—let me Here it is called Loli Lion Roar.
Of course, Pandora's helium flash is incomparable to the explosion of a red giant star, and the girl's tragic height of 1.2 meters can't hide an exploding sun. She just used psionic energy to simulate the process, and the power has also dropped by an unknown amount After all, one is the multi-megaton nuclear deflagration that exploded in an instant after hundreds of millions of years of accumulation, and the other is a laser that can roar out after a few seconds of recharging. If the power of the latter can be compared with the former... Hope No matter how against the heavens, the Spirit Apostle would not play like this.
"The probe has detected a white dwarf star that is forming inside this red giant star. The Imperial fleet will build a ring base around it as our outpost in this universe. At the same time, they will also try to establish a connection with Lilina, The communication system of the Templar Legion may also be formatted, we have to try the encrypted frequency bands they may be using one by one to restore the connection with that natural black," I patted Matou Sakura on the shoulder, letting the still busy Seeing the amazed girl come back to life, "Don't look, this planet is not only beautiful, but also more dangerous. The spaceship of the Federation Army has limited psionic energy, and it won't last long on the red giant star. Let's go to the Elsword first." .”
Although I don't know what Lin Xue is up to, countless bloody stories tell us that if we don't listen to the prophet at the critical moment, we will suffer big losses. Alsace's father is an ironclad proof.
Elsword was the last to evacuate from the "hot start" range during the Koprulu catastrophe, and the first Protos Our Lady to be improved by the Empire's technology. This old antique spaceship that has been in operation for centuries is full of Protos The pride and powerful light of the glorious period, after mounting a large number of imperial technology components, can be said to be the most powerful spaceship in the New Eden Federation (the "zero" type that the empires donated to the Federation as a colony star and energy treasure) Star Wars is not one of them), although it can't beat the warships outside the specifications such as the Glory class, it is almost the same as the Eternal class. This huge disc-shaped space fortress is protected by several layers of powerful psionic shields. There is a military "town" centered on a giant psionic crystal, and in this town there is a cylindrical building that is the most conspicuous. The psionic generator viewed by the temple—a gift from the empire.
I really want to complain about the move of these Protosians to build the command center on the psionic generator. This is not bungee jumping on a nuclear bomb-is it nonsense
"If energy leaks occur in all your creations, then I am afraid that there will be no safe equipment in the entire universe." Faced with my strong doubts, Renault, who personally served as the commander-in-chief of the Federal Front this time, just laughed. He is above the extremely powerful psionic generator, but he doesn't seem to be worried at all. It seems that he has never seen the Fukushima incident... Cough cough, "But you still regard it as a common thing to establish an outpost inside the red giant star. It really opened my eyes.”
"So-so, but you, and Zeratul, the two Supreme Speakers of the Federation came out to fight with me personally, so you don't care about government affairs?"
As soon as I finished speaking, Zeratul's deep and hoarse voice sounded from the side: "Great mentor, as the head of the empire, you can go on an expedition in person, and we should be more like this..."
I was sweating on the spot. You need to know that Zeratul is just telling the truth. If you don’t know, you are mocking me. Because of the personal conquest all day long, Lin Xue is almost running on me now...
Coughing twice in embarrassment, I started to change the subject: "Speaking of which, Sakura should have finished preparations, right?"
I was talking to Medusa, who nodded imperceptibly: "Sakura has switched to the form of the Crystal Virgin, and is adjusting the resonance with Avalon. We can already receive intermittent messages from the Shadow Fortress."
The translation of this sentence means that Sakura has installed the antenna and is now dialing.
Sakura's work efficiency was really good. Ten minutes later, when the federal fleet jumped away from the red giant and entered an asteroid belt through time and space, we finally regained contact with the Shadow Fortress. The first message we received was obviously It was written by Lin Xue, with the first five big characters: Heavenly King Gaidihu, I replied without thinking: There are great Confucian scholars... Anyway, at least it rhymes.
The communication established with the help of a Crystal Madonna is naturally very limited in bandwidth. Although watching movies is definitely not a problem, I still have to give way to military communications for private meetings. Since Sakura is on the Elsword, this Proto The Notre Dame becomes the communication beacon of this universe. The Imperial Admiral, which is moored at the core of the red giant star, will use the Notre Dame as a springboard to continuously upload the massive world constant information collected to Shadow At the same time, we were also downloading the void coordinates sent by Shadow City at high speed to restore the deleted fleet star map. This process took more than two hours, and Sakura's uplink and downlink bandwidth once reached 5TB/ s, this brutal internet speed made me almost choke myself to death, but Sandora kept complaining that the server was too stuck...
"Girl Lin, can you tell me now, what are you up to?"
While waiting for the star map to be repaired, I finally had time to ask that great fairy what she meant by her three tricks. V